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Quonset, quonset orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈkwɒnsɪt|
Also (erron.) quanset.
[f. the name of Quonset Point, Rhode Island, where the article was first made.]
Used attrib. and ellipt., esp. in Quonset hut, of a kind of prefabricated building consisting of a semi-cylindrical corrugated metal roof on a bolted steel foundation.
A proprietary name in the U.S.
1942Collier's 19 Sept. 21/1 The boys practiced erecting on deck their ‘Quonsett huts’, queer little igloos, the roofs of which are designed to catch rainwater to be saved for a sunny day. 1943Pop. Mechanics Apr. 61/1 ‘Quonset Huts’, those portable barracks, begin replacing the tent city. 1946New Yorker 16 Mar. 22/1 The first American⁓made Nissens, or Quonsets, were sent to England under lend-lease in June, 1941. 1946Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Offie) 19 Nov. 287/2 Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Wilmington, Del... Filed Mar. 15, 1946. Quonset. For readily erectable buildings, knock-down buildings, portable buildings, and prefabricated buildings. Claims use since September 1941. 1949‘P. Michaels’ This Perverse Generation viii. 67 From sturdy, roomy architectural loveliness to quonset hut—civilization marches on! 1957J. Kerouac On Road xiii. 90 A tremendous aluminum Quonset warehouse. 1959E. Tunis Indians 32/2 There seems to have been a quonset-shaped house, too, in Virginia and North Carolina. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iv. 82 She parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long. 1972E. Staebler Cape Breton Harbour ii. 24 A long scalloped row of traps made of raw wood slats, shaped like a quanset hut. 1973‘B. Mather’ Snowline iii. 30 Nissen and Quanset huts hastily erected in World War II. 1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald-Jrnl. 21 Apr. a6/5 The family's quonset hut home on Oahu Island's north shore was washed away by a swollen river. 1977Time 27 June 48/2 The final dozen hippies..last week evacuated their grimy quonset hut on the edge of town. |